>Received: by krypton.rain.com (rnr) via rnr; Thu, 31 Oct 2002 13:12:13 -0800 To: opendos AT delorie DOT com X-Original-Message-From: "Paul O. BARTLETT" Subject: Re: Graphical WWW Browser for DOS? From: shadow AT krypton DOT rain DOT com (Leonard Erickson) Message-ID: <20021031.131213.9I2.rnr.w165w@krypton.rain.com> Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 13:12:13 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: Organization: Shadownet User-Agent: rnr/2.50 Received: from krypton by qiclab.scn.rain.com; Thu, 31 Oct 2002 13:16 PST Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com Errors-To: nobody AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: opendos AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk In mail (yesterday) you write: > On Wed, 30 Oct 2002, Arkady V.Belousov wrote: > >> POB> speak? Finally, the mouse port on this tired old box is dead, so I >> POB> would need something that can be controlled with cursor keys. >> >> There are no such besties as "mouse port" - in old machines (386, most >> 486) mouse connected to COM port, in newer machines mouse connected to PS/2 >> port. If I right understand, on your machine died one from two COM ports? >> >> PS: For mouse I recommend CuteMouse - http://cutemouse.sourceforge.net/ :) > > What I meant was this. On the back of the machine are two ports, > one clearly marked Keyboard and the other Mouse. They are shaped > identically (those little round jobs; I am not a hardware specialist). > The machine is an old Tandy 2500SX/20, one of the last machines that > Radio Shack ever sold with the Tandy label. > > When I cabled it up the other day, I plugged the keyboard into > Keyboard and the nouse into Mouse. When the boot started, the BIOS > complained about a Keyboard Key Stuck Failure. The boot completed, but > no keyboard. I plugged a different keyboard into the port; same > result. So I switched the plugs, putting the keyboard into the Mouse > port and vice versa. Now at least I have a keyboard, but no mouse. The way some companies labelled those, it's hard to tell which was supposed to be which. If they keyboard *works*, then it *is* plugged into the keyboard port. Also, it's possible that it wanted a (somewhat non-standard) Tandy keyboard. I know my Tandy 1000 TL/2 did. Did you try loading a mouse driver? And did you run the setup program to see if the mouse port was enabled? I think the 2500 was one of the systems where you have to run a program to do setup, it's notstored in ROM somewhere. If so, you can still get the program frokm the Radio Shack website, you just have to dig a bit. -- Leonard Erickson (aka shadow{G}) shadow AT krypton DOT rain DOT com <--preferred leonard AT qiclab DOT scn DOT rain DOT com <--last resort